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PKAIEIE AND FOKEST. 



Arctic variety, Here as in many other races is to be 

 observed the wonderful provision of nature to enable the 

 animal kingdom to be suitably clothed for the climate they 

 live in, whether they have to combat with almost tropical 

 heat or hyperborean winters. Thus what is generally 

 culled the grey wolf is one and the same race with the 

 black, brown and white, the change of colour being to 

 adapt them to the prevailing temperature of the latitude 

 they live in. 



1MUIK1E WOLYKS. 



The two other species are the cayotte and prairie wolf, 

 both much smaller than the afore-mentioned species, in fact 

 bearing the same relative position to the new world as the 

 jackal does to the old. They are essentially prairie 



